Tag: classical Chinese poetry
The Daylily’s 2,500-Year Journey: How China Turned a Poet’s Flower into a Kitchen Staple
The Chinese idiom "huánghuācài dōu liáng le," literally "even the daylily dish has gone cold," is a northern...
Su Shi in Exile: The Meaning of ‘Settling the Wind and Waves’
Su Shi, a leading poet and statesman of China’s Song dynasty, wrote some of his most enduring lines while...